On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:58:34 +1300 (MSD), Valery V. Sedletski wrote:
>Hi all.
>...
I have rethought the problem and, it seems, found the solution -- still block on a semaphore, but not in server stub, but
in the client routine which calls the RPC to the server.
But the problem remains -- the semaphore is in the server, but need to share it with the client for it to reset it. -- So the next
question arises -- how to tell DICE to map the semaphore to the client? -- I have the semaphore in the server, and trying
to return it from the RPC to the server. But DICE returns a copy of the semaphore, and not maps it to the client. I try to use
the following IDL declaration:
APIRET dos_ExecPgm ([out, string,
prealloc_client,
prealloc_server] char **pObjname,
[in] long cbObjname,
[in] unsigned long execFlag,
[in, string] char *pArg,
[in, string] char *pEnv,
[in, out] struct _RESULTCODES *pRes,
[out, size_is(len), ref,
prealloc_client,
prealloc_server] l4semaphore_t **tSem,
[out] int *len,
[in, string] char *pName);
-- so, I'm trying to use 'ref' attribute for tSem. But in that case, DICE requires me to specify the array with 'len' parameter. Can I avoid
this length parameter? (I must return one l4semaphore_t * value from the IDL method, and get the mapping of original semaphore,
not its copy).
So, any help is appreciated.
WBR,
valery